Chennai: Expelled AIADMK leader V K Sasikala has said she would file an appeal in the Madras High Court against a local court dismissing her plea challenging the AIADMK General Council’s decision to expel her from the post of interim general secretary.
Talking to reporters at Thiruchengode, she still contended that her expulsion
was invalid. ‘I will file an appeal in the High Court’, she added.
To a question on the need for AIADMK-BJP working together, she said ‘it is
a compulsion of time’.
Meanwhile, AIADMK cadres celebrated the court verdict allowing the petition filed by top AIADMK leaders O Panneerselvam and Edappadi K Palaniswami against Sasikala’s plea by bursting crackers and distributing sweets at the party office in the city.
OPS and EPS, who came to the party office, discussed the outcome of the court order and Sasikala’s decision to file an appeal.
A city court Monday dismissed expelled Sasikala’s plea challenging her removal at the party general council in 2017.
The court dismissed her plea following an interlocutory application filed by
AIADMK coordinator Panneerselvam and joint coordinator Palaniswami, party’s legal wing joint secretary A M Babu Murugavel said.
Sasikala had moved the city civil court earlier contending that the AIADMK general council held in 2017, which expelled her as general secretary, was not valid.
Sasikala was elected as AIADMK’s interim general secretary in December 2016 soon after the death of former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
However, in February 2017, the then Chief Minister O Panneerselvam revolted against her and said that he was coerced to resign from the post. This led to a split in the AIADMK with one faction being headed by the OPS and the other by Edappadi Palaniswami, who later became the Chief Minister.
However, the warring factions merged in August 2017 with one of the main demands of the OPS camp was to keep Sasikala, who was subsequently convicted in DA case and lodged in Bengaluru prison, out of the party affairs.